There were approximately 2.9 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnessesreported by private industry employers in 2015, which occurred at arate of 3 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, the U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics reports.
|Private industry employers reported nearly 48,000 fewer nonfatalinjury and illness cases in 2015 compared to a year earlier,according to estimates from the bureau's Survey of OccupationalInjuries and Illnesses (SOII). Because of this decline, combinedwith an increase in reported hours worked, the total recordablecases (TRC) incidence rate fell 0.2 cases per 100 full-timeworkers.
|Related: Catastrophic injuries in the workplace: How toprevent the 'vortex of failure'
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